India's Bharti Hexacom's oversubscribed IPO gets bids worth over $8b

India's Bharti Hexacom's oversubscribed IPO gets bids worth over $8b

Sunil Bharti Mittal, billionaire, chairman and chief executive officer of Bharti Enterprises Ltd., gestures as he speaks during a panel session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Indian telecom operator Bharti Hexacom received bids worth 702.51 billion rupees ($8.43 billion) in its initial public offering, outpacing its offer size of 42.75 billion rupees, exchange data showed on Friday.

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